NFLPA to Fight League’s New Personal-Conduct Policy

NFLPA executive director Maurice Smith at a news conference in Phoenix on Thursday.

Reuters

The NFL Players Association said Thursday that it would fight the league’s newly approved personal-conduct policy, and that it would release its own salary-cap projections to help players get better contracts.

Union president Eric Winston said in a news conference Thursday that the union would challenge the NFL’s new personal-conduct policy, which team owners unanimously approved in December in wake of domestic-violence and child-abuse allegations against players. The policy involves a process that includes an investigation, paid leave, punishment and an appeal. Winston said many aspects of the policy fell outside the collective-bargaining agreement between the league and the players’ union.